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No. 465,950. Patented Dec. 29,1891.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

AMOSD. ROXVE, OF NEWVARK, NEW JERSEY, ASSIGNOR OF ONE-HALF TO GEORGE W. GORUM, OF SAME PLACE. Y

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SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 465,950, dated December 29, 1891.

Application filed June 16, 1891. Serial No. 396,455. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, AMOS D. ROWE, a citizen'of the United States of America, residing at Newark, in the county of Essex and State of New Jersey, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Trundling-Hoops, of

' which the following is a specification, referonce being had therein to the accompanying drawings.

My invention relates to certain improvements in trundling or toy hoops, afiording an amusing and recreative pastime for children; and it consists in the provision of such a hoop with a toy or ornament of some character adapted by gravity to maintain its normal position While the hoop is being trundled or rolled, all substantially as hereinafter more fully described.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 is a side view of my improved trundling or toy hoop. Fig. 2 is across-sectional viewthereof.

In the embodiment of my invention I preferably employ an outer or large hoop A, preferably of round or-rod iron or cylindric in cross-section, and within the hoop I dispose a smaller or inner hoop B, arranged so as to have a desired amount of space between it and the hoop A, the two being connected or bound together by diagonal, circular, or other form of braces a a.

C is a toy, figure, or ornament of some character, in the present instance being an equestrienne, one hand of the rider, which is extended upward and backward some distance above the head, having journaled therein a small grooved wheel 0, and in the feet of the horse oranimal bare jonrnaledsimilar grooved wheels 0 c, all of which Wheels travel upon the inner or smaller hoop B, their grooves preventing their displacement. Thus it will 40 be seen that by gravity, as the hoop is trundled or rolled by the child, the toy bodily will tend downward and that by the friction between the rolling or moving hoop and the small Wheels of the toy said wheels will rotate, preventing the tendency of the toy it self to partake of the motion of the hoop, whereby the toy, figure, or ornament will relatively remain motionless, thus maintaining its normal position during the rolling of the hoop. The figure or toy will therefore itself move in a rectilinear line, thus representing the lifelike or real, combining with the hoop an amusing and recreative pastime.

Itis obvious that the outer hoop can be of 5 hoop or flat iron, so as to allow the same, when reduced in size, to convert it more especially into a toy to be manipulated or rolled upon a table, floor, or other surface. It is also obvious that the inner hoop can be omitted and the ornament, figure, or toy be mounted directly upon or within the outer hoop, if desired.

Having thus fully described my invention,

what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

The trundling-hoop having the equestrienne figure, the feet of the animal and the hand of the rider having wheels adapted to revolve or travel in contact with the inner circumference of the hoop, substantially as set forth.

In testimony whereofl affix mysignature in presence of two witnesses.

AMOS D. ROWE.

IVitnesses:

E. ZEH. I-IAWKEs, S. PEEIT RAWLE. 

